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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

How Many Ecology Employees Does It Take ...

Recent public records requests show the flurry of activity at Ecology when the Charles Dalton video surfaced. Ecology prepared a powerpoint presentation. They blogged about about the video. At one point, they had as many as 11 staff at all levels involved with developing a response. Eleven people! And what did Ecology's response say? Well, in part, it said that Ecology had no authority in the matter at hand.

"We don’t have regulatory authority in local critical areas ordinance issues. We don’t make rulings or issue enforcement actions under local critical areas ordinances. Those tasks are on local government turf" (Gordon White, Eco-Connect Blog, Feburary 14, 2012.)

All that PR effort for a situation where they claim to have no authority? The email below is just one example of the many emails related to this matter. You can see there are eight people, including senior managers, involved in just one email.

The real question is why Ecology cares about their image in the first place. They're regulators, not movie stars. Yet, they have a blog, a Facebook page, and they seem to have a surfeit of "communications" staff. Are they communications staff or publicists?

1 comment:

Oh, no--there goes another cycle of internal DoE buzzing. Another 11 "management" personnel spending time reading blogs and organizing plans of response, PowerPoint decks, videos, etc., to rehabilitate their image. Query: it is better for the communal welfare of the people and creatures in the State of Washington that the DoE staff be occupied with petty concerns about their "image," or be out doing what they consider "substantive" work? We pay either way, but if they spend the whole week chasing their tails about this, at least some community may escape their "assistance."